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Irene responds to an oft-asked question: My young doe has blood in her milk, why is this happening, is it mastitis? First off, this isn’t mastitis, it’s usually referred to as ‘pink milk’. Pink milk, in all its shades, is a metabolic disturbance and is usually caused by lack of available blood calcium. Blood in the … click here to continue reading Pink Milk Isn’t Mastitis by Irene Ramsay First up, it helps to keep daily records of the milk each doe gives. Simplest way is a 14-column cash book, which gives you morning and evening columns for a week. Get into the habit of using this twice a day, and you can note all sorts of other things at the same time, like … click here to continue reading Worms – Visible Signs and Treatment by Irene Ramsay The age to disbud kids varies from breed to breed. An approximate guide is: BUCK KIDS DOE KIDS Toggenburgs have a much broader horn base than the other breeds, which is why their hornbuds ripen … click here to continue reading Disbudding Kids by Irene Ramsay The first and most obvious steps in protecting your buck’s health are to worm him regularly, and trim his feet regularly. Bucks are usually kept in fairly restricted quarters, so that they are constantly eating over their own wastes, and therefore re-infecting themselves with worm larvae. Give your buck a hay-rack, rather than putting his … click here to continue reading Your Buck’s Health by Irene Ramsay There are many forms of mastitis in goats, and not all are caused by bacteria. Probably the commonest cause is pressure and the resultant bruising. When the udder is holding more milk than it has ever done before, the outer skin becomes stretched and painful. Unless the pressure is relieved the stretched skin will become … click here to continue reading Natural Ways of Treating Mastitis by Irene Ramsay If your buck won’t serve the cause is often dietary – the minerals in his tucker aren’t in balance. Copper, iodine and phosphorus and Vitamin A are all necessary for a working buck. One way to ginger him up is to give him kelp powder. This is often available in supermarkets these days and is … click here to continue reading What to Do When Your Buck Won’t by Irene Ramsay The buck is half the herd, we are told, and a lot has been written about choosing him through his milking background, etc. I don’t propose to cover that ground again. Over the years, one fact has repeatedly come to my notice. On every occasion when some delighted goat-keeper has been raving over the newly-acquired … click here to continue reading Choosing Your Buck Kid by Irene Ramsay Symptoms of copper deficiency: |
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